macOS Anyone able to point me to some descent examples of basic game engines?

Hi guys,

As you may know from other threads I am in a class where we have to write a game engine as an entire class (we are split into teams). This has failure written all over it since only three of us know what we are doing since no one else seems to study outside of class (and the three of us who are familiar with engines are obviously not experts). I have only made a basic one in SDL.

Anyway I am wondering if anyone has any articles or really basic flowcharts of a really basic game engine built on a singleton design pattern that I can pass around my group for them to read while I work on coding. I was looking for some but didn't come up with much.

Right now I am the only coder since the others in the group are completely lost. They are confused by our book (even though the book is great) and its putting quite the strain on me. If anyone had a "game engine for super beginners" type article or even flow chart that would be super great

Thanks for the links

I actually ended up just giving up and writing it all myself. It works high level but I haven't implemented any low level details so I'm sure I will run into something. What sad is our section is only 5 classes and my fellow team mates are confused

Oh well more programming practice for me since I graduate in October

The engine is just a basic one for games, nothing fancy. We have a main core (my teams section) a physics core, AI core, scripting core (not a good idea IMO since now we have no sound core), UI core, and graphics core.

I wanted on the graphics team but got stuck on main We have 8 weeks to build it.

MrFusion said:

Can't you talk to a TA? It is supposed to be a team effort. Doing everything yourself might not be feasible and you will end up with a lower great just because you can't finish everything in time.
The others might pass just because you do all the work, while they don't understand jack ****. Their graduation might degrade the value of your degree. Well, maybe not these particular people, but generally speaking.

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I know its bad for me to do the work, its really a catch 22 :/ I'm going to see how it goes after this week and if its still bad I'm going to talk to the professor.

I understand that not everyone would be at my skill level because I do do a lot of studying outside of school and have been a hobby programmer since roughly 1998 and if someone doesn't understand something I have no problem showing them, but being one person (in a very hard degree program) it makes things difficult to be everyones tutor.

Whats worse is the classes always will pair the knowledgable students with the not so knowledgable students. You are asked to rate yourself on a scale of 1 - 10 (1 being someone who knows nothing and shouldn't be in the class and 10 being someone who thinks they are ready for the workforce) and I wrote 3 hoping to get paired with another student who knows what they are doing (in reality I think I'm about a 9 or a 10). Unfortunately in my desperate attempt to sway the class to use OpenGL over DirectX for our graphics API (since I'm on Mac and I also like OGL better) I used my knowledge to back my arguments.

I got a letter from the professor shortly after saying that I greatly underestimated my knowledge and then got stuck on the main core of our engine Two students told me up front they were lost. Ok, at least they're honest and willing to learn what I show them. The third student thinks he knows what he's talking about but its obvious he is clueless.

The whole thing is a mess What sucks is since I have to do everyone elses work that gives me less time to work on my portfolio and I graduate in October. Oh well I will see how this week pans out. I made them all a UML diagram to follow which looks flawless on paper (don't they always? ) so hopefully everyone can follow it and make appropriate classes for our section.